MorrisrownSal

Thank you all. EM, a powerful nuance. My wife’s dad passed in early late 2012, the day I after I brought home a quite expensive Martin M-21 Steve Earle. If you imagine the guitar, a 0000 with rich rosewood backing and a warm Alpine spruce top. It was very melodic, and a stunningly rich guitar. It also made me feel bad every time I picked it up, and left the den.

This Saturday is the memorial for my wife’s mother, who has lived with us the last six years, before hospice. We have family coming from Georgia, Nashville, DC, Boston, NY… probably about 40 people in my home. My wife’s cousin Kim is a professional violinist/fiddler, and she asked me to accompany her as we did for my father in law’s service a decade ago. I will accompany her on Ashokan Farewell, Ishereen, and Over the Rainbow. I have three Gibsons. The J45TV, a Rosewood J45 Studio, and an LG2. We will not be amplified. I’m thinking the TV? We won’t be practicing prior, so I should pick right.

Condolences Ben. Sad. May she rest in peace. anyways I hear Mountain, ACDC, and frankly a little Will Ferrell.

The guitar I am sure is real. I’m not sure the listing is. 🙂

Don’t worry. I am not taking the risk… https://www.etsy.com/listing/1435488000/mint-gibson-j45-standard-vintage?click_key=248be06df85e733a3ba41825909cec472e413db6%3A1435488000&click_sum=81224831&ref=shop_home_active_1&frs=1&cns=1

I have an LG-2 50s Reissue (spruce over mahogany) and a J45-Studio Rosewood (spruce over rosewood) currently. I also used to own the J-45 Studio Walnut. The LG-2 is lightweight, airy, crisp, not a lot of bass, it strums nicely with softer attacks. It does fingerstyle blues well. It records amazingly perfect. No bad frequencies to minimize, and bass can always be skewed up in prod. It also is the perfect couch guitar. The Studio Rosewood is obviously a larger bodied guitar, but retains the 000 depth, so it is comfortable to play. The rosewood gives thick fat trebles, sustain, more volume, and is a satisfyingly rich guitar. More overtone. More texture to the sound. dropped D? Chefs kiss. Open tuning? Chefs kiss. The walnut version is as you would expect in between. Less sustain, but more volume and power than the LG-2. The walnut is closer to mahogany than rosewood in town, so you have the crispness, and the nite decay, it has a growl. Also great guitar. If you are strumming the Eagles get this model. Here is a quick comparison done a few weeks ago of the current three that I own. It’s recorded dry with an iPhone and no effects, so the recording kind of stinks? But you can hear how much more midrange heavy the rosewood is. If you like the sound of a traditional j-45 best, get the walnut studio.

Ahhhhh. I think that’s great! You will demo it for us I’m sure.

You always post quality crap. Always. And original. This is your best. blood will tell is helluva hook.

The music was aces! And my oh my, how natural you are up there. Relatable. Likable. Humor. If you were not a musician, you could have gone up there without guitar, and done stand up. And started just the same. Just a terrific natural… and that’s what a story teller is. Good on ye. and just when I think the joint here was overrun with… well whatever, you pop in and remind me why it’s still a great forum.

Now that is a guitar I can definitely see you vibing.

I have sold to nid007, and bought from 007. as a matter of fact I sold him a 2016 Hummingbird Vintage, and I bought from him a Hummingbird TV. small world. alls I’ll say is deal confidently. He is a gentleman worthy of the guitars he plays.

I’m thinking the 50s Reissue J-45 has that chunky neck you may like to try. I have it on my LG-2 and it feels like home.

I owned a Martin 000-28 sunburst (loved it). Sold it to my buddy Joe. For one year it loved in his unhumidified house in NJ. And the crack appeared. It’s not full open, you can just feel it and it lets you know it’s there. humidifying the guitar has helped, but the only way to fix it so you won’t see or feel it now is a refinish?

Dave that’s just showing off. anyways, for what it’s worth, I own the D15, I had owned the 000-15, 0000-15, and 00-25 as well. this will sound weird. The 00-15 sounds the best. Not tinny. A spectacular model. One less zero makes the model better,

What do the Shallers give over the Rotos?

Congrats on a well aged guitar that is ready to sing.

I used 11s, and possibly acoustic 10s, on a fender Acoustasonic. I tried anything to make that guitar hurt less. And I have 11s on an old Ovation just trying to prolong its life. other than that, I don’t think if used anything but 12s for a dozen years easy.

This looks to be earlier in her career. Early 90s. here is a catalog from the early 90s that shows a J45-natural that looks similar. Later in the 1990s J50s seemed to come with the batwing guard. https://www.dropbox.com/s/9lqeeialcqg4wim/1991 Gibson Catalog (Japan).pdf?dl=0

Well, I almost bought a Martin Special Run all Walnut 000 from Manchester Music Mill. They look stunning, and I thought it might scratch the itch left by my 000-28, which I sold to my friend a year and a half back. instead, I am thinking Gibson. J-45 Studio Rosewood. Short scale, thinner body depth, warm… we will see. I know I loved the Studio in Walnut I owned two years ago.

This made me choke up. Simply beautiful sentiment. I felt this with Petty Croz and Frey.

Ben. You went full Walnut… you never go full walnut…?

I’ve heard a J45 all walnut model on the interwebs. has anyone heard others? Martins? 000’s? Own one? thoughts? What to expect?

I hadn’t heard either. I remember being floored when I found out it was he who sang the falsetto in Stay, and not Jackson. RIP

I’m in the J45 camp? I think only because you mentioned part of your wants is to flatpick on your choice. I think every time someone flatpicks a Bird, an angel loses…

Doesn’t sound like Johnnys Garden.